Comment 175 for bug 160311

agree with Scaine (on 2007-11-13: #2): "Resizing windows is cumbersome, frustrating and far too easy to get wrong."

For me, a border/corner click will show the resize icon, then many times stop that operation and switch focus to the window underneath--very annoying. :( It's as if the resize operation has a loose screw.

I don't know GTK, but, from an xlib POV, I imagine one place to look would be in the routine(s) that call XGrabPointer() and perhaps change the "owner_events" argument to False...my 2-cent shot-in-the-dark FWIW.